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I love reading other people's birth stories, so I suppose it is only fair that I post our own. If you are someone who is grossed out by the birth process, you may want to stop reading now :) I promise it won't be too graphic.

I started having contractions on Sunday night, April 21st, at about 8:30 pm. All throughout late pregnancy I had been having a lot of Braxton-Hicks contractions, and I had managed to convince myself that I was going into labor numerous times, so I wasn't wanting to get too excited. The contractions varied a lot in intensity. I wasn't sure which ones to "count". Nick and I were both getting frustrated with trying to time contractions. I kept saying, "OK, it's starting now. No wait! That wasn't a real one. That was too short. Don't count that..." The biggest clue that this was the real thing was the fact that I was really cranky :) Unlike our first labor where I was very serene throughout, I was getting r…

I adored this travel memoir about the author's year spent circling the globe with her husband and three young children. After reading such an authentic account of both the joys and trials of spending a significant amount of time hopping from one time zone to another, I can say for certain that I never want to make an around the world trip with my kids. But I was inspired to do more adventuring close by and to better appreciate the gift of home.

I read this book aloud to the kids, and while they enjoyed it, it wasn't really what I expected. I appreciated the basic premise of kids working to save endangered owls from destruction by a greedy corporation, but there was altogether too much bathroom humor, and at the end of the day I w…

It's that time of the month! Time to talk books with Modern Mrs. Darcy, Jessica Chance and many other lovely ladies in the blog world.
This month I finished quite a few books including three works of contemporary fiction. Whoa! That's a record for me for sure. And of course some great nonfiction as well.
Here are the books I finished: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

I loved this elegant immigrant story that wrestles with so many of the lines that divide us - gender, class, race, age. I think what I like best is that in the end it blasts all our stereotypes to pieces with a delightfully satisfying conclusion. And it's a great love story that's romantic but also tasteful in its telling. It was one of those books that I wished would keep going, not just because I loved the characters, but because the prose was so lovely, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

I read this one aloud to the kids this month, and at the risk of inciting Pooh'…